Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

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[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Big-K

Anyone know why Videos are not showing in Internet Explorer but showing OK in Firefox and Chrome?

That usually means that you need to update your flash

[Martin9887]

Got a problem with YouTube, someones post looks like this:



but it comes out as:

http://www.gamequorum.com/forum/show...42&postcount=1

Working fine before, and I haven't changed anything.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Martin9887

Got a problem with YouTube, someones post looks like this:



but it comes out as:

http://www.gamequorum.com/forum/show...42&postcount=1

Working fine before, and I haven't changed anything.

You have multiple versions of the same definition. Look through your definitions and remove one of the duplicates

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by The Geek

That doesn't look like the default YouTube definition. Are you using the latest version?

Hmm I've used the Delta additions...

Okay what is the best way of clearing out everything and installing 2.5.4 from scratch?

Empty the definitions completely and reload the product?

[The Geek]

Hmm, uninstalling and then reinstalling the product will give you back the defaults, then you can re-import the other definitions you use.

HTHs

[Armageddonz]

This is simply awesome!

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hmm, uninstalling and then reinstalling the product will give you back the defaults, then you can re-import the other definitions you use.

HTHs

That's what I hoped...... I've just removed and completely loaded in v2.5.4 fresh and on entering the URL of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk0xWm8PMGQ

I get:

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1234295232_7">
<a href="" title="You Tube" target="_blank">You Tube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1234295232_7">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="You Tube" target="_blank">You Tube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uk0xWm8PMGQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uk0xWm8PMGQ&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

Now completely stumped as this worked prior to vB3.8.x

Any more ideas?

[tekguru]

Okay more weirdness ......

If I change the 'container' template setting to either null or 'ame_container' then the very next posting seems to work, but when another post is made it fails.

Interestingly enough each time I do a post preview the video shows up perfectly!

[tekguru]

Okay I've tried going back to version 2.02, and tried 2.5.4 completely reinstalling each time.

Tried vB vanilla templates etc, turning Mods on and off.

Again if I change the template it works for a second or two, bit not after that.

So unfortunately I'm going to have to disable the Mod until a fix is found

[The Geek]

can you PM me a temporary (and restrited) admincp account so I can see this in action (it works fine here). I just need to see AME's settings, an example URL and be able to review usergroup permissions.

Thanks